Friday, June 15, 2007

Welcome to the June 15, 2007 edition of the carnival against sexual violence.

Thank you to everyone who nominated a post or who wrote a post against sexual violence whether it was nominated/selected or not. Nominations that came in after the nomination deadline will be considered for the next edition of the carnival.

If you support the purpose of the carnival, you can help get the word out about it and all of the posts included in the carnival.

Here are the selections for the 25th edition of the carnival against sexual violence:

personal stories

In It happened then, why is it still happening now? posted at Birthcycle, we get a frank discussion of the harm created by sexual harassment that is allowed to continue unchecked and how much of the advice meant to stop sexual harassment makes the victim feel responsible for being victimized.

In Placing Blame Where It Belongs posted at The Thinkery, we get a discussion of victim blaming in rape cases to the point of effectively putting the victim on trial and how that contrasts to non-sexual crimes.

In City (Waukegan in suburban Chicago) refuses to pa... posted at Strange Justice, we get information about the false conviction of Alejandro Dominguez on rape charges which allegedly occurred because the identification process was unfairly suggestive of his guilt and because the investigator ignored significant differences between him and the victim's description of her attackers.

In FIERCE, violence against women of color, support posted at Women of Color Blog, we get a discussion of a case where a man harassed and then attacked a group of lesbian women, including pinning one woman and choking her, resulted in charges against the women, but not against the man and not against other men who interceded when they saw a woman being choked.

In Eugene, don't be daft posted at The Bull in Full, we get a discussion about resistance from a Durham city council member to a request by other council members that a representative from the Durham Crisis Response Center sit in on the lacrosse investigation panel.

raising awareness

In Flow of Consciousness posted at O'Doyle Rules, we get a discussion of the difficulty people have understanding the reality of sexual violence including a vivid scenario involving a baseball bat which shows the obvious flaws in dismissing the possibility of a real sexual assault when the victim began as a willing participant.

recovery

In Reparations posted at Everyone Needs Therapy, we get a discussion of what reparations are in a therapy (vs. legal) situation and how having a perpetrator take full responsibility for harming another person can help the victim's recovery.

research

In Smith on Sexual Abuse & Slavery posted at Legal Theory Blog, we get information about a study by Brenda V. Smith (American University - Washington College of Law) titled Sexual Abuse of Women in United States Prisons: A Modern Corollary of Slavery.

In How to teach your kids not to rape posted at Gatochy's Blog, we get a discussion of what mothers who have been raped should disclose to their sons, if anything, when trying to emphasize the right choice to make when stepping over the line is tempting.

That concludes this edition of the carnival against sexual violence. Thank you for taking the time to visit this carnival and thank you to the authors of all the posts included in this edition.

The next submission deadline is June 28 at 11 pm and the next edition will be out on July 1.

Thanks for the note about the first anniversary of the blog carnival against child abuse. I hope to get more active in your carnival again when I catch my breath after the anniversary. You continue to do great work I admire!

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